Freivalds: The Deep State: It's been around long before Donald Trump |
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By John Freivalds
Published 12/19/2019
Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia
Freivalds runs an international communications firm in Lexington.
Yet again President Donald Trump and his pundits railed against the “Deep State” and how it only arose during his administration to overthrow him. To Trump, anyone who disagrees with him is “treasonous” and part of the “Deep State” conspiracy against him which now even includes the military. But in Trump’s case, the “Deep State” goes beyond mere “treasonous” as anyone who has knowledge and expertise and works for the government is part of the “Deep State.” He deprecates these people by calling them “so-called” experts, judges, et.al.
There is nothing new in human nature. We are much the same as the characters in the Bible, the tyrants of world wars, or emperors in the streets of ancient Rome or chilly ports of Denmark. This all came together in a just out new book “Appeasement” by Tim Bouverie (Tim Duggan Books 2019). In it Bouverie points out that Neville Chamberlain, then prime minister of Great Britain, signed an armistice with Hitler’s Nazi Germany hoping for “peace in our time.” This armistice allowed Hitler to cut up Czechoslovakia and Chamberlain believed that this would be Hitler’s last land grab.
